Senate Bill No. 171
(By Senator Snyder)
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[Introduced January 14, 2015; referred to the Committee on Health and Human Resources; then to the Committee on Finance; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact article 5, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to chronic pain management clinic licensure.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article 5, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.
§64-5-1. Department of Health and Human Resources.
The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 31, 2014, authorized under the authority of section nine, article five-h, chapter sixteen, of this code, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (chronic pain management clinic licensure, 69 CSR 8), is authorized.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to chronic pain management clinic licensure.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.